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Hi, I have another question, I have the 11.1 V version S033g.....and after I charge it and it says its charged......I can get it to go upward but for not long and when you start going forward or reverse it suddenly starts dropping down toward the ground. Could this be a battery issue?

All of you guys with syma 033,032and like ilk are all having the same interruption of flight.I've been fighting this battle for two months and have not found any cure that I would guarantee.I'm dragging a 6"antenna now with the rest around the legs of the gear.Works(most of the time).Replaced "B" motor,no joy.I'm with the gang.I'm frustrated.Syma has been NO HELP.Grrrrrrrr.

I have many different RC planes, helicopters, cars, boats you name it, and I control them, like everybody else, either using with my advance RX/TX system or just using their original RTF "inexpensive receiver and transmitters".
At their own level, they all work. The connection is usually not a problem you just notice the difference in how smooth it is or when flying a glider at 1000ft.

I bought this S033g on an auction and I can tell you that "IT HAS ONE BIG DESIGN PROBLEM". It is an RC toy that doesn't do RC just toy with moments of RC. =)

This is the most useful information on this thread. Excellent info. I will try it an repot, Thanks.

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Originally Posted by CarlP

The wavelength of 27mhz is 11 meters so a 1/4 wave antenna is 11meters divided by 4 =108 inches. Since running 108" wire is a bit much they either use a coil on the receiver to "add" inches or a multiple of 108" like 54" or 27".

These are the 6 frequencies allocated For the RC Radios on the 27 MHz band.
They are interspersed between the 27MHz frequencies allocated for the Citizen Band Radios on the 27 MHz band.

This is one of the reasons why having a Helicopter or Airplane on the 27 MHz band is a bad idea in this country. A citizen band radio has 4 watts of power (I think it used to be 5 watts back in the 70's, But the FCC lowered it to 4 Watts if my memory serves me) Our RC Radios operate at a fraction of that power.

Then there's the phenomenon called "skip" and it varies according to sun spot activity. When sun spot activity is high, Then the "skip" is in strong. The radio signal leaves the CB Antenna and bounces off of the ionosphere and can come back to earth hundreds of miles away from it's origin. It was easier to talk to someone hundreds of miles away, When "skip" was in, Than it was to talk to someone across town.

Then if having to put up with the citizen Band bleed over into adjacent channels (There's only ten MHz seperation between channels) You also have the Citizen Band Radio operators that arn't satisified with running a stock radio, They crank up their big, illegal, linear Amps like a Swan or Henry that's putting out 5000 watts or more and then you really have a mess on 27 MHz. These illegal amps can wipe out five or six channels or more, on either side of the one that they are transmitting on . If you have a CB radio, tune in to channel six some time whe the "skip" is in, as that's known as the "Smoke Blowers" Channel.

So as you can see, That while a longer antenna can sometimes help, It can also multiply the interference.

Me too, I will not buy any more heli's on 27 MHz after the experience I've had with this one. I've got a new pcb and motors coming for my S033G. I have the long antenna on it, But I still get signal losses. I think that there may be something wrong with the original pcb as the S033G used to fly without any signal loss problems.

If replacing the motors and pcb doesn't solve the signal loss problem, I guess I'll just use it for spare parts for the S33.

All I can say, Is thank Goodness that Syma saw the light and came out with the S33 on 2.4GHz.

mmatrix00,

When you put your long antenna on your S033G, Did you use stranded, copper wire? Or a single, solid, copper wire?

mmatrix00,
When you put your long antenna on your S033G, Did you use stranded, copper wire? Or a single, solid, copper wire?

It was regular solid wire Jim (see picture).
Actually, I did a little distance test today with the S033G.
Basically I flew the helicopter away from me to a distance of aprox 130 feet and It was still immediately responding.
Pretty amazing for a heli that was loosing its signal at only 4’ !